Paul

Dave Goodchild

<p><strong>!! WARNING: Before activating this plugin, please DO NOT deactivate the previous Article Directory plugin if you have it installed !!</strong></p>
<p>If you do deactivate, you will lose your settings.  Once you have activated this new plugin, you may go to the plugins page and deactivate the old one.<br />
That way we make a backup of your settings because the old plugin is set to delete your settings automatically when you deactivate.</p>
<p>Please note: I’m not the original author but I’m open to suggestions on ways to add to and develop out the plugin. Please feel free to leave suggestions in the forums.</p>
<p>This is taken directly from the original <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/article-directory" rel="ugc">Article Directory plugin</a> last updated 3 years ago (2011-1-16), and made compatible with WordPress 3.9 and<br />
it’s updated database system.</p>
<p>Displays the structured list of categories (like in article directory), which can be easily customized with CSS. Also allows authors to publish articles and change their profile bypassing the admin interface. See an example at <a href="http://articlesss.com/" title="Article Directory" rel="nofollow ugc">Articlesss.com/</a>.</p>
<p><strong>Standard features for categories list:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Showing an amount of articles in parent and child categories.</li>
<li>Showing a category description in link title.</li>
<li>Showing the empty categories.</li>
<li>Using hierarchy for subcategories.</li>
<li>Excluding a specified categories.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Special features for categories list:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Simple and handy design using CSS. The structure of categories is the multilevel list, which can be altered easily with CSS, as you need. The parent category have the <code><div></code> container to mark it out with CSS as a parent.</li>
<li>Parent category is showing amount of articles in subcategories. The character also include the number of articles in this parent category.</li>
<li>Showing a specified amount of child categories (2nd level).</li>
<li>Showing a categories in specified amount of columns.</li>
<li>Hiding all subcategories.</li>
<li>Adding an icons for each category in the list using CSS.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>Additional features:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Authors can add articles and change their profile bypassing the admin interface.</li>
<li>Displaying the “Terms of article publication” on article submission page.</li>
<li>Excluding the child categories articles from the parent categories archive pages.</li>
<li>Ability to get an article source code.</li>
</ul>


Article Directory Redux

Displays the list of categories like in article directory and allows authors to publish articles and change their profile bypassing the admin area.

yutonet

<p>Advanced Footnotes lets you add footnotes on articles via shortcodes. Advanced Footnotes is is extremely customizable, therefore it can be implemented on any theme.</p>
<p>With its internal functions, you can also implement Advanced Footnotes on your own theme in any form you like.</p>
<p>Main Features:</p>
<ul>
<li>Easy & flexible implementation.</li>
<li>Implemented WYSIWYG editor button.</li>
<li>Footnotes  can be implemented with shortcode or function.</li>
<li>Animated scroll effect (can be disabled)</li>
<li>Lightweight CSS (can be disabled)</li>
<li>Custom CSS styling</li>
<li>Dynamically changeable interface options (JS can be fully disabled)</li>
</ul>
<p>Usage</p>
<h3>Inserting a Footnote:</h3>
<p>In order to insert a footnote, you can either use the “Insert Footnote” button added on your WYSIWYG editor, or use the [footnote]your-footnote-here[/footnote] shortcode.</p>
<h3>Shortcode Parameters:</h3>
<p><em>“type”:</em> Determines the type of the reference. <strong>Options:</strong> <em>numeric</em> / <em>non-numeric</em>.</p>
<h3>Listing Footnotes:</h3>
<p>You can display the footnotes in two methods:</p>
<h3>Listing by Shortcode:</h3>
<p>By simply inserting the <em>[footnotes]</em> shortcode in your post content, you can display footnotes wherever you want in your posts.</p>
<h4>Shortcode Parameters:</h4>
<p><em>“title”:</em> Determines the title for the footnotes list. Default value can be set through plugin settings.</p>
<h4>Shortcode Usage:</h4>
<pre><code>[footnotes title="My Custom Footnotes Title"]
// or
[footnotes title="false"]
</code></pre>
<h3>Listing by Theme Inclusion:</h3>
<p>You can print the footnotes by calling <em>print_refs</em> function from the advanced_footnotes class.</p>
<h4>Simple Function Usage:</h4>
<pre><code>call_user_func(array('advanced_footnotes', 'print_refs'));
</code></pre>
<h4>Additional Parameters:</h4>
<ul>
<li>First parameter: “Print”, whether print or return the footnotes content. (Default: “true”)</li>
<li>Second parameter: “Title”, determines the title for the footnotes content. (Default: “false”)</li>
</ul>
<h4>Function Usage with Parameters:</h4>
<pre><code>$footnotes = call_user_func_array(array('advanced_footnotes', 'print_refs'), array(false, 'Custom Footnotes Title'));<h3>Plugin Options:</h3>
</code></pre>
<p>You can access the plugin options through “Options/Advanced Footnotes”.</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Include Plugin CSS:</strong> Determines whether to include the default plugin css files. Disable this if you want to re-style the plugin within your theme.</li>
<li><strong>Custom CSS:</strong> Provides a field for custom CSS styling.</li>
<li><strong>Include Plugin JS:</strong> Determines whether to include the plugin javascript files on the theme output. Disable this if you want to customize plugin interactions or just to use native HTML anchors.</li>
<li><strong>Default Title for Footnotes:</strong> Sets the default title used on the “[footnotes]” shortcode.</li>
<li><strong>Footnote Symbol:</strong> Sets the symbol used for non-numeric footnotes.</li>
<li><strong>Disable JS Options:</strong> Determines whether to apply options to the plugin JS files or not.</li>
<li><strong>Footnotes Scroll Gap:</strong> This sets the scroll margin when clicked on a footnote. Set this when you have a fixed header or any other element blocking some part of the window area.</li>
<li><strong>Footnote Scroll Speed:</strong> Sets the animation speed when a footnote is clicked. Set 0 for no animation.</li>
</ul>
<h3>HTML Structure & Classes</h3>
<h3>Anchors:</h3>
<h4>Numeric Anchor:</h4>
<pre><code><a id="{unique id}" class="afn-footnotes-ref hook numeric" name="{unique id}" href="#{unique id of the reference}">{number - automatically incremented by the order}</a>
</code></pre>
<h4>Non-numeric Anchor:</h4>
<pre><code><a id="{unique id}" class="afn-footnotes-ref hook non-numeric" name="{unique id}" href="#{unique id of the reference}">footnote symbol</a>
</code></pre>
<h3>References:</h3>
<p>Non-numbered references are listed before the numbered references on the list.</p>
<pre><code>
<div class="afn-footnotes">

    
    <h3 class="afn-footnotes-title">{Title}</h3>

    
    <ul class="afn-footnotes-list">

        
        <li class="footnote-item afn-textarea">
            <a id="{unique id}" class="afn-footnotes-ref reference non-numeric" name="{unique id}" href="#{unique id of the anchor}">{footnote symbol}</a>
        </li>

        
        <li class="footnote-item afn-textarea">
            <a id="{unique id}" class="afn-footnotes-ref reference numeric" name="{unique id}" href="#{unique id of the anchor}">{number - automatically incremented by the order}</a>
        </li>

    </ul>

</div>
</code></pre>
<p>Known Issues</p>
<ul>
<li>WYSIWYG Button doesn’t work on the plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/tinymce-advanced/" rel="ugc">TinyMCE Advanced</a> (and probably on some other -WYSIWYG editor modifying- plugins).</li>
</ul>
<p>Contribution</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/yutonet/wp_advanced_footnotes" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/yutonet/wp_advanced_footnotes</a></p>

Advanced Footnotes

Advanced Footnotes lets you add footnotes on articles via shortcodes.

Article Directory Redux vs Advanced Footnotes